May to June 2010
I am a fourth year student majoring in Printmaking at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. My work encompasses collage, sculpture, painting and experimental prints. I have a fascination for South African history and how our cultural differences seem to bring about multiple definitions for a single entity. My aim is to seek a better understanding of how different views affect us as a nation.
German intellectual Jurgen Hebermas says that, the current generation should engage its traumatic past critically and truthfully, and should be self-scrutinizing, self-critical, and reflective about the validity and desirability of historical inheritances such as traditions and symbols. He goes on to say, It should search for discontinuities and raptures in history rather than fixate on continuities.(Van Der Watt, 2005:26)
This is what I try to put across in my work.
Banmanye is participating in his first residency at Greatmore studios.
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